Animal found harbouring plant gene

作者：褚楸酪 发布时间：2019-03-02 02:13:05

By Rowan Hooper WHEN Hercules chopped the head off the Hydra, the freshwater snake-monster of Greek mythology, two heads grew back in its place. Now the modern freshwater Hydra, a simple animal related to jellyfish and coral, is proving equally surprising: it carries a plant gene, the first ever found in an animal. Matthias Habetha and Thomas Bosch,